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Mike Nigro (Oxtail Recordings, Constellation Tatsu)
Mike Nigro is an electronic musician and label operator based in Sydney, Australia (previously Brooklyn, NY and Newark, Delaware). His solo practice and collaborations draw inspiration from the minimalists, early synthesizer pioneers, and contemporary experimental underground. His work explores the spaces between musicality and noise; movement and stasis; synthetics and organics. He’s released music with stalwart champions of underground experimentalism such as Constellation Tatsu, Lillerne Tapes, Phinery, A Giant Fern, and his own Oxtail Recordings.

Matthew D. Gantt (Orange Milk, Oxtail Recordings)
Matthew D. Gantt is an artist, composer, and educator based in Troy, NY. His practice focuses on sound in virtual spaces, generative systems facilitated by idiosyncratic technology, and digital production presets as sonic readymades. Gantt releases music with Orange Milk and Oxtail Recordings and his work has been featured in The Wire magazine, Pop Matters, Exclaim!, Tiny Mix Tapes, Bandcamp New and Notable and more.

Ariadne Randall (Oxtail Recordings)
Ariadne Randall is an American artist, composer, and writer based in Vienna. Her work has been heard widely, from Lincoln Center and the Vienna Volksoper to countless basements. Her Reverse Cowgirl Trilogy of performances rides her gender transition towards larger questions of identity and becoming; its second chapter features McKenzie Wark and will premiere at Brut Wien in 2025. Her debut record under her chosen name was released in 2024 on Oxtail Recordings. She is represented by Peter Gaugy (Brussels/Vienna).

Alexander Martinz
Alexander Martinz is an Austrian educator, audiovisual artist and composer. His artistic practice revolves around the exploration of audiovisual media traditions and their interconnections, often drawing on complex transformations of pop culture materials as a foundation. His works, characterized by a fusion of sound, visual media, and technology, have been featured in prominent festivals such as Wien Modern, steirischer herbst, and Diagonale.